Gail Dines, an activist and professor at Boston's Wheelock College chose battered women's shelters as the recipients this campaign. Because as she learned women in real life end up in shelters - if she was lucky. Links to donate to various women programs.

Last week, the day after thousands of homeless youth around the city relied on drop-in centers and community outreach for a Thanksgiving meal, the New York Department of Housing announced that it would immediately begin slashing funding for youth

more than one million students without stable housing by last spring, has tested budget-battered school districts as they try to carry out their responsibilities -- and the federal mandate -- to salvage education for children whose lives are filled with

Domestic violence and sexual assault programs are facing a crisis. State funding and donations are down, while demand for services is skyrocketing. Shelters are operating over capacity and are turning victims away. Federal funding of programs is essential

When a saint for animals crosses inside my head I think of Dusty, a woman with great values and love for helping children and animals in a pure way, honest, sincere and real.
Dusty is the kind of animal lover that really practice what she says: HELP.

The nation has three-quarters of a million homeless people, filling emergency shelters through the year and spilling into special seasonal shelters in the coldest months, the government said Wednesday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development est